And away we go! Episode 546 of the Algoldi podcast, it is Monday, April 10, 2023. Hope that you had a nice Easter weekend. Hope that you had a nice Easter weekend.

Hope that you had a nice Passover weekend. If you are in the midst of Ramadan, I hope that that is going well. You know, we had a nice Easter.

How about this though? We went to place for an Easter breakfast. There was music at the place. You figure, alright, nothing wrong with that.

The music was, you know, older music like classic rock, some 80s music, things like that. Okay, I mean, maybe a little unconventional, but whatever.

And then at one point, the song that was playing was the song Push It by Salt in Peppa. Yeah. Push It by Salt and Peppa at an Easter breakfast.

Now, no heater of Salt and Peppa, am I? Okay. Some great songs back in the day, including, yes, Push It. But I don't know, man. I'm not sure that Push It is what you want as background music at an Easter breakfast.

I mean, I was cutting up waffles for my five year old son and Push It was playing in the background kind of a surreal moment.

Hello and welcome to this Monday installment of the Al Goldie podcast. Hey, John Rom, one of the masters, first European player to win both a master's hand to us open. His nickname is Rambo. I love that.

John Rom aka Rambo. Well, we like Rambo or Rambo on this show are going to cover a lot of ground. As is always the case on a Monday installment of the podcast coming up next segment, a lengthy conversation with Kyle Smith or GM.

He is a writer for hogs haven a great site about the commanders Kyle Smith or GM. He does not publicize his real name. He is mysterious. He is enigmatic, but he writes a lot of smart and insightful stuff for hogs haven.

And so we are going to get into a number of topics, including, yes, the sale of the team, but also what Ron Rivera must do in order to keep his job.

As commanders head coach beyond the 2023 season, whether the commanders are better now as compared to at the end of this past season, what the team should be thinking with its number 16 overall pick in this month's NFL draft, how the Ron Rivera regime for Washington has done at drafting.

Why the commanders should not exercise the fifth year option and the rookie contract of edge defender chase young are some very interesting research on where we are with positional value in the NFL and more prepare yourself to become smarter.

Kyle Smith for GM writer for hogs haven is coming up next segment. Also on the show, the rest of your Washington DC area sports weekend, a more comprehensive podcast or show, you will not find regarding Washington DC area sports.

The NBA's 2022, 2023 regular season is over, meeting that our wizards the season is over. And they on Sunday afternoon concluded quite the tank job to end their season a 114, 109 loss to the Houston Rockets at Capitol when rated despite the rockets finishing the regular season with the second worst record in the western conference.

This was a game that nobody wanted to win, but somebody had to win the wizards on Friday night did win and unfortunate one 14 108 win over the Miami Heat at Capitol when arena, but the wizards came together and stepped up or should I say step down on Sunday afternoon. I have a lot for you on the end of yet another dismal season for the wizards.

So I will talk nationals off a wild last three games for the dance and would have ended up being a four game split at the Colorado Rockies and would have get the Orioles off a disappointing weekend for them losing two or three games to the New York Yankees at Oriole Park at Camping yards.

And I will discuss the capitals who now have just three games left in the teams first non-playoff season in nine seasons.

The caps on Saturday night a four to loss to the Florida Panthers at Capitol when arena and yet another ugly performance spot at caps, although like the wizards, the caps are better off losing.

And the caps now have guaranteed finishing with one of the 11 worst records in the NHL for this regular season.

That matters because a team in the NHL draft lottery cannot move up more than 10 spots.

So the caps will have a shot at the number one pick in the 2023 NHL draft in which the expectation is that this guy Connor Bedard will be the number one overall pick.

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